On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Randy Waki wrote:
> If a quoted URL attribute value (e.g., href in <a> elements)
> contains a line break, 13-Jan-2000 Tidy changes the line break
> to a space while IE and Netscape discard the line break. This
> can result in a broken link in the tidied document.
Thanks for the input and the patch. The SGML and XML specs
require the newline to be interpreted as a space, but then
that's just one more example where the browsers depart from
theory. I guess this fix is ok if limited to href and src.
Regards,
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